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Minium: Twitter Gave Us No Choice But to Restart Our Men's and Women's Basketball Accounts

By Harry Minium

The University of Alabama football program has a mega presence on Twitter, the social media platform most often followed by football and basketball players and coaches. No college football program can equal the one million people who follow the Crimson Tide.

Yet even Twitter giants like Alabama make mistakes. Four times in 2018, Alabama's official football Twitter account ran afoul of federal rules, reportedly by using copyrighted music on videos. Each time, Twitter shut down Alabama's account.

Losing your Twitter feed can be disastrous for an athletic program. Twitter is where so much recruiting and fan promotion is done, particularly in football and men's and women's basketball.